Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or mini-series which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
A separate list of full-fledged TV series appears at the end.
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Note: Soviet films are in Russian and originate in the Russian SFSR, unless otherwise noted.
| Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|
| USA | Hitler, Beast of Berlin | Sam Newfield | German political prisoner |
| UK | The Lion Has Wings | Michael Powell, Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst | RAF mobilization - the first British propaganda film of the war |
| Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK | Convoy | Pen Tennyson | The Battle of the Atlantic |
| Germany | Feinde (Enemies) | Viktor Tourjansky | Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland |
| Japan | Moyuru ōzora | Yutaka Abe | |
| UK | Secret Journey | John Baxter | Espionage |
| UK | The Big Blockade | Charles Frend | The Economic blockade of Germany |
| USA | The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | A satirical film of Nazism and a dictator named Adenoid Hynkel |
| USA | The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | The Battle of the Atlantic |
| USA | Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin | Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington |
| USA | Waterloo Bridge | Mervyn LeRoy | While mobilizing, a British officer reminisces about his World War I romance [1] |
| USA | Women in War | John H. Auer | Nurses in the Battle of Britain |
| Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|
| USA | Back to Bataan | Edward Dmytryk | Battle of Bataan, guerrilla warfare in the Philippines, the Battle of Leyte |
| USA | Blood on the Sun | Frank Lloyd | An American journalist is persecuted by the Japanese militarist government http://www.archive.org/details/BloodontheSun |
| USA | China's Little Devils | Monta Bell | |
| USA | Cornered | Edward Dmytryk | Ex-Nazis in Argentina |
| USA | Combat Fatigue: Insomnia | Dick York | US soldiers dealing with insomnia, post traumatic stress disorder, and homosexual temptation http://www.archive.org/details/CombatFa1945 |
| USA | Counter-Attack | Zoltan Korda | The Eastern Front |
| Denmark | Den usynlige hær (The Invisible Army) | Johan Jacobsen | Danish partisan |
| Denmark | De røde Enge (The Red Meadows) | Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. | Young Danish saboteur |
| Mexico | Escuadrón 201 | Jaime Salvador | Squadron 201 of the Mexican Air Force in the Battle of Luzon against the Japanese |
| USA | First Yank Into Tokyo | Gordon Douglas | |
| USA China |
God Is My Co-Pilot | Robert Florey | The Flying Tigers |
| USA | Keep Your Powder Dry | Edward Buzzell | Women's Army Corps |
| Germany | Das Leben geht weiter (Life Goes On) | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | About how the V-2 rocket would turn the tide of the war in Germany's favour |
| Japan | Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors | Mitsuyo Seo | The first full length anime film; shows Japanese folk hero and animal buddies driving British soldiers off an island |
| USA | Objective, Burma! | Raoul Walsh | The Burma Campaign |
| USA | Out of the Depths | D. Ross Lederman | Fictional rogue Japanese resistance during the USS Missouri surrender ceremony |
| USA | The Last Chance | D. Leopold Lindtberg | Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border http://www.archive.org/details/TheLastChance_ |
| USA | Pride of the Marines | Delmer Daves | The Battle of Guadalcanal; civilian readjustment |
| USA | Prison Ship | Arthur Dreifuss | |
| Italy | Roma, Città Aperta (Rome, Open City) | Roberto Rossellini | About the Italian resistance movement after the Nazis occupied northern Italy |
| USA | Samurai | Raymond Cannon | |
| USA | The Story of GI Joe | William A. Wellman | Ernie Pyle accompanies Company C, 18th Infantry in the North African Campaign and the Battle of Monte Cassino |
| USA | They Were Expendable | John Ford | PT boats in the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) |
| USA | Too Young to Know | Frederick De Cordova | War in the South Pacific separates a young couple |
| USA | A Walk in the Sun | Lewis Milestone | The Invasion of Salerno |
| UK | The Way to the Stars | Anthony Asquith | RAF and USAAF bomber crews stationed in England |
| USA | What Next, Corporal Hargrove? | Richard Thorpe | The final comedic adventures of Private Hargrove in Europe |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Philippines | Death March | Leopoldo Salcedo | The Bataan Death March |
| 1946 | Philippines | Dugo ng Bayan (I remember Bataan) | Fernando Poe, Sr. | Filipino Resistance. |
| 1946 | Philippines | Garrison 13 | Unknown [3] | War crimes committed by Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines. |
| 1946 | Philippines | Guerilyera | Octavio Silos | The guerrilla movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
| 1946 | UK | Journey Together | John Boulting | Follows the life of three RAF pilots from recruitment to first combat |
| 1946 | France | La Bataille du rail | René Clément | Stories on railroad French resistance |
| 1946 | Philippines | Orasang Ginto | Manuel Conde | The Battle of Bataan and Battle of Corregidor. |
| 1946 | Italy | Paisà | Roberto Rossellini | About the Italian campaign |
| 1946 | UK | School for Secrets | Peter Ustinov | Operation Biting |
| 1946 | USA | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | American servicemen struggle after returning home from the war |
| 1946 | UK | The Captive Heart | Basil Dearden | British prisoners of war in Germany |
| 1946 | UK | Theirs is the Glory | Brian Desmond Hurst and Terence Young | Operation Market Garden |
| 1946 | USSR Yugoslavia |
V gorach Yugoslavii (In the Mountains of Yugoslavia) | Abram Room | Yugoslav partisans; Draza Mihailovich; Chetniks |
| 1946 | Philippines | Walang Kamatayan | Tor Villano | The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1946 | Poland Italy |
Wielka droga (La Grande strada) | Michał Waszyński, Vittorio Cottafavi | Polish Campaign 1939, Russia, Africa, Italy 1944 |
| 1946 | Poland | Zakazane piosenki (Forbidden Songs) | Leonard Buczkowski | Polish Resistance 1939-1945 - the first post-war Polish film, and a musical |
| 1947 | China | The Spring River Flows East | Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli | The Second Sino-Japanese War. |
| 1947 | Poland | Ostatni etap (The Last Stop) | Wanda Jakubowska | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 1947 | Denmark | Jenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny) | Johan Jacobsen | |
| 1947 | UK | Frieda | Basil Dearden | |
| 1947 | USA | 13 Rue Madeleine | Henry Hathaway | |
| 1948 | USA | Command Decision | Sam Wood | Command stresses in the US Eighth Air Force |
| 1948 | UK | Against the Wind | Charles Crichton | A Commando raid into occupied Belgium |
| 1948 | UK | A Piece of Cake | John Irwin | |
| 1948 | Norway | Kampen om tungtvannet | Norwegian heavy water sabotage | |
| 1948 | USA | Fighter Squadron | Raoul Walsh | P-47 fighters in the US air war in Europe |
| 1948 | USA Switzerland |
The Search | Fred Zinnemann | Displaced persons in postwar Germany |
| 1948 | Occupied Germany | Morituri | Eugen York | The first post-1945 German film about the war |
| 1948 | Poland | Ulica Graniczna (Border Street) | Aleksander Ford | The Holocaust in occupied Poland |
| 1948 | Poland | Stalowe serca (The Steel Hearts) | Stanisław Januszewski | Silesia Poland 1944 / 45 |
| 1948 | Yugoslavia | Na svoji zemlji (On the own territory) | France Štiglic | People are fighting to kill Germans and Italians |
| 1948 | Denmark | Støt står den danske sømand (The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman) | Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr. | Tells the true story about Danish sailors |
| 1948 | Denmark | Tre år efter | Johan Jacobsen | Situation after the war termination |
| 1949 | USA | Battleground | William A. Wellman | The 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge |
| 1949 | Denmark | Det gælder os alle | Alice O'Fredericks | A young survivor from a concentration camp. |
| 1949 | France | Mission in Tangier | André Hunebelle | A journalist carries documents to London from Tangiers. |
| 1949 | USSR | Padeniye Berlina | Mikheil Chiaureli | The Battle of Berlin |
| 1949 | USA | Sands of Iwo Jima | Allan Dwan | The Battle of Iwo Jima |
| 1949 | UK | The Small Back Room | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | Bomb disposal |
| 1949 | USSR | Stalingradskaya Bitva | Vladimir Petrov | The Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1949 | UK | They Were Not Divided | Terence Young | The British Guards Armoured Division |
| 1949 | USA | Twelve O'Clock High | Henry King | B-17 bombers of the US Eighth Air Force |
| 1949 | USSR | Vstrecha na Elbe | Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksei Utkin | Elbe Day |
| 1949 | Poland | Za wami pójdą inni (The Others Will Follow) | Antoni Bohdziewicz | Warsaw, Polish resistance |
| 1949 | USA | Home of the Brave | Mark Robson | Black soldier is paralyzed after recon unit is attacked on Pacific island |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | USA | American Guerrilla in the Philippines | Fritz Lang | The Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1950 | USA | Francis | Arthur Lubin | Francis the Talking Mule unmasks a Japanese spy in the South Pacific |
| 1950 | Philippines | Mapuputing Kamay | Fausto J. Galauran | Filipina nurses in the battles in Bataan and Corregidor. |
| 1950 | Poland | Miasto nieujarzmione (Unvanquished City) | Jerzy Zarzycki | Poland Warsaw 1944 |
| 1950 | UK | Odette | Herbert Wilcox | SOE agent Odette Samson. |
| 1950 | USA | Three Came Home | Jean Negulesco | Battle of Borneo (1941-42) |
| 1950 | USA | When Willie Comes Marching Home | John Ford | |
| 1950 | UK | The Wooden Horse | Jack Lee | True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany |
| 1951 | Italy | Achtung! Banditi! | Carlo Lizzani | The Italian resistance movement |
| 1951 | UK | Albert | Guy Morgan and Edward Sammis | |
| 1951 | USA | Decision Before Dawn | Anatole Litvak | The American army uses German POWs as spies in Germany in 1945 |
| 1951 | USA | Fighting Coast Guard | Joseph Kane | |
| 1951 | USA | Flying Leathernecks | Nicholas Ray | A US Marine fighter pilot in the Pacific |
| 1951 | USA | Force of Arms | Michael Curtiz | The US Fifth Army in the Italian Campaign |
| 1951 | USA | Go For Broke! | Robert Pirosh | U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France |
| 1951 | Philippines | Makapili | [4] | Makapili during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.[5]. |
| 1951 | USA | Operation Pacific | George Waggner | A US Navy submarine's patrols in the Pacific War |
| 1951 | USA | Submarine Command | John Farrow | |
| 1951 | USA | Target Unknown | George Sherman | |
| 1951 | USA | The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | Henry Hathaway | Biopic of Erwin Rommel from the Second Battle of El Alamein to the July 20 plot |
| 1951 | USA | The Magic Face | Frank Tuttle | An actor takes Hitler's place |
| 1951 | USA | The Wild Blue Yonder | Allan Dwan | |
| 1951 | USA | You're in the Navy Now | Henry Hathaway | A US submarine chaser in development |
| 1952 | USA | Above and Beyond | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | The 509th Composite Group and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima |
| 1952 | UK | Angels One Five | George More O'Ferrall | The Battle of Britain |
| 1952 | UK | Appointment in London | Philip Leacock | RAF Bomber Command |
| 1952 | Japan | Children of Hiroshima | Kaneto Shindō | The dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan |
| 1952 | UK | Gift Horse | Compton Bennett | The St Nazaire Raid |
| 1952 | France | Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) | René Clément | The Occupation of France |
| 1952 | Norway | Nødlanding (Emergency Landing) | Arne Skouen | American bomber shot down in Norway. Surviving crew hidden by Norwegian resistance Milorg and smuggled out of the country. |
| 1952 | USA | Flat Top | Lesley Selander | Pilot training aboard U.S. Navy carriers |
| 1952 | USA | Okinawa | Leigh Jason | The Battle of Okinawa |
| 1952 | USA | Operation Secret | Lewis Seiler | Espionage |
| 1952 | USA | Red Ball Express | Budd Boetticher | Transportation units in the European Theater of Operations during World War II |
| 1952 | USA | Thunderbirds | John H. Auer | The 45th Infantry Division in Italy. Code talkers. |
| 1953 | UK | Albert RN | Lewis Gilbert | British POWs in a German camp |
| 1953 | Japan | Anatahan | Josef von Sternberg | Japanese soldiers on a remote Pacific island will not accept that the war has been over for years |
| 1953 | USA | China Venture | Don Siegel | |
| 1953 | USA | Destination Gobi | Robert Wise | A US Navy weather unit in Mongolia |
| 1953 | USA | El Alaméin | Fred F. Sears | The Second Battle of El Alamein |
| 1953 | USA | Fighter Attack | Lesley Selander | The Italian Campaign and Partisans |
| 1953 | USA | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | The attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 1953 | USA | Guerrilla Girl | John Christian | Greek Resistance |
| 1953 | UK | Malta Story | Brian Desmond Hurst | The Siege of Malta |
| 1953 | UK | Single-Handed | Roy Boulting | Royal Navy (based on Brown on Resolution) |
| 1953 | USA | Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | German Prisoner of War camp for US flyers |
| 1953 | Japan | Taiheiyo no washi (Eagle of the Pacific) | Ishirō Honda | Biopic of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto |
| 1953 | UK | The Cruel Sea | Charles Frend | The Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1953 | USA | The Desert Rats | Robert Wise | The Australian 7th Division at Tobruk, during the North African Campaign |
| 1953 | UK | The Red Beret | Terence Young | British paratroops Operation Biting |
| 1953 | Canada | Tit-Coq | René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas | A French Canadian serviceman comes home |
| 1954 | West Germany | 08/15 | Paul May | |
| 1954 | USA | Betrayed | Gottfried Reinhardt | Dutch resistance in the Battle of Arnhem |
| 1954 | USA | The Caine Mutiny | Edward Dmytryk | Destroyer warfare in the Pacific |
| 1954 | West Germany | Canaris | Alfred Weidenmann | Admiral Canaris was head of the German military intelligence and was part of several plots against Hitler. |
| 1954 | UK | The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | RAF bombers launch Operation Chastise |
| 1954 | Spain | La patrulla | Pedro Lazaga | Spanish volunteers on the Eastern Front |
| 1954 | UK | The Purple Plain | Robert Parrish | RAF evaders in the Burma Campaign |
| 1954 | UK | The Sea Shall Not Have Them | Lewis Gilbert | Air Sea Rescue |
| 1954 | UK Norway |
Shetlandsgjengen | Michael Forlong | Shetland Gang; Docu-drama about Norwegian smugglers in the North Sea; most members of the "gang" play themselves |
| 1954 | UK | They Who Dare | Lewis Milestone | SAS raid in occupied Greece |
| 1954 | China | Letter with Feather | Shi Hui | A story of a young boy who, through his wits, delivers an important message to the 8th Route Army while evading Imperial Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War. |
| 1955 | Denmark | Der kom en dag | Sven Methling | About the last days of the Occupation |
| 1955 | West Germany | 08/15 - In der Heimat | Paul May | |
| 1955 | West Germany | 08/15 - Zweiter Teil | Paul May | |
| 1955 | UK | Above Us the Waves | Ralph Thomas | Submarine attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz |
| 1955 | USA | Battle Cry | Raoul Walsh | US Marines at the battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan |
| 1955 | Poland | Błękitny krzyż (Men of the Blue Cross) | Andrzej Munk | The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Eastern Front in 1945 |
| 1955 | UK | The Cockleshell Heroes | José Ferrer | Royal Marine commandos launch Operation Frankton |
| 1955 | UK | The Colditz Story | Guy Hamilton | British, Dutch and French POWs in special "escape-proof" camp |
| 1955 | West Germany Austria |
Der letzte Akt (The Last Act, Hitler: The Last Ten Days) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | |
| 1955 | USA | The Eternal Sea | John H. Auer | Pacific War |
| 1955 | Poland | Godziny nadziei (The Hours of Hope) | Stanisław Bareja, Jan Rybkowski | Poland 1945 |
| 1955 | West Germany | Jackboot Mutiny | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | The July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler |
| 1955 | USA | Mister Roberts | John Ford and Melvin LeRoy | A US Navy cargo ship in the South Pacific |
| 1955 | Poland | Pokolenie (A Generation) | Andrzej Wajda | Polish Resistance |
| 1955 | Malaya | Sergeant Hassan | P. Ramlee | war legend |
| 1955 | USA | To Hell and Back | Jesse Hibbs | Combat biography of Audie Murphy |
| 1955 | Finland | The Unknown Soldier | Edvin Laine | Finno-Soviet Continuation War |
| 1956 | UK | A Town Like Alice | Jack Lee | British and Australian POWs after the Battle of Singapore |
| 1956 | USA | Attack | Robert Aldrich | US infantry in France after D-Day |
| 1956 | USA | Away All Boats | Joseph Pevney | US attack transport in the Pacific |
| 1956 | USA | Battle Stations | Lewis Seiler | US Navy battleship in the Pacific War |
| 1956 | USA | Between Heaven and Hell | Richard Fleischer | A National Guard unit in the Philippines |
| 1956 | USA | D-Day the Sixth of June | Henry Koster | The Normandy invasion |
| 1956 | Yugoslavia | Dolina miru (Quiet Valley) | France Štiglic | American soldier saves two children |
| 1956 | Spain | Embajadores en el infierno | José María Forqué | Spanish prisoners at a Russian camp |
| 1956 | Poland | Kanał | Andrzej Wajda | Warsaw Uprising 1944 |
| 1956 | UK | Reach for the Sky | Lewis Gilbert | Douglas Bader and the Battle of Britain |
| 1956 | UK | The Battle of the River Plate | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | Battle of the River Plate |
| 1956 | UK | The Black Tent | Brian Desmond Hurst | The North African campaign |
| 1956 | USA | The Bold and the Brave | Lewis R. Foster | The Italian Campaign |
| 1956 | Japan | The Burmese Harp | Kon Ichikawa | The Burma Campaign |
| 1956 | UK | The Man Who Never Was | Ronald Neame | The Battle of Sicily - Operation Mincemeat |
| 1957 | UK Sri Lanka |
The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | British POWs work on the Burma Railway |
| 1957 | Poland | Con bravura | Andrzej Munk | The Tatra Mountains in Poland - the Polish Resistance |
| 1957 | West Germany | Der Fuchs von Paris (The Fox of Paris) | Paul May | The Battle of Normandy from the German soldiers' perspective |
| 1957 | West Germany | Der Stern von Afrika | Alfred Weidenmann | Story of Hans-Joachim Marseille, ace of the Luftwaffe. |
| 1957 | USA | The Enemy Below | Dick Powell | The South Atlantic; cat-and-mouse action between US destroyer and a German submarine |
| 1957 | West Germany | Haie und kleine Fische | Frank Wisbar | The Shark and the Little Fish; U-boats |
| 1957 | USA | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | John Huston | A U.S. Marine and Catholic nun trapped on enemy island in the South Pacific |
| 1957 | USA | Hellcats of the Navy | Nathan Juran | Submarine warfare in the Pacific Theatre |
| 1957 | USSR | Летят журавли (Letyat zhuravli) The Cranes Are Flying |
Mikhail Kalatozov | Damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II. |
| 1957 | Norway | Ni Liv | Arne Skouen | Story of Jan Baalsrud, Norwegian resistance man who's forced to make an epic escape to neutral Sweden following a failed sabotage operation in Tromsø, Norway. |
| 1957 | UK | The One That Got Away | Roy Ward Baker | True story of German escaper Franz von Werra |
| 1957 | UK | The Steel Bayonet | Michael Carreras | |
| 1957 | USA | The Wings of Eagles | John Ford | A biography of Navy flier Frank W. "Spig" Wead, Pacific theater. |
| 1958 | UK | Carve Her Name with Pride | Lewis Gilbert | SOE agent Violette Szabo |
| 1958 | USA | Darby's Rangers | William Wellman | The Battle of Cisterna and Battle of Anzio. |
| 1958 | West Germany | Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) | Géza von Radványi | Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1958 | Poland | Dezerter (Deserter) | Witold Lesiewicz | A Pole from Silesia in the Wehrmacht |
| 1958 | UK | Dunkirk | Leslie Norman | Operation Dynamo; the Dunkirk Evacuation |
| 1958 | Poland | Eroica | Andrzej Munk | The Warsaw Uprising 1944 / POW Camp 1944/45 |
| 1958 | Poland | Historia jednego myśliwca (Story of one Fighter) | Hubert Drapella | The Battle of Britain 1940 |
| 1958 | West Germany | Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever!, Battle Inferno) | Frank Wisbar | The Battle of Stalingrad |
| 1958 | UK | Ice-Cold in Alex | J. Lee Thompson | North African campaign |
| 1958 | UK | I Was Monty's Double | John Guillermin | General Montgomery |
| 1958 | Poland | Krzyż walecznych (Cross of Valour) | Kazimierz Kutz | The Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1958 | UK | Operation Amsterdam | Michael McCarthy | |
| 1958 | Poland | Orzeł | Leonard Buczkowski | The story of ORP Orzeł |
| 1958 | Poland | Pigułki dla Aurelii (Pills for Aurelia) | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1958 | Poland | Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) | Andrzej Wajda | Polish Resistance 1945 |
| 1958 | USA | Run Silent, Run Deep | Robert Wise | Japanese submarine chase during the Pacific War |
| 1958 | UK | Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) | Guy Green | Long Range Desert Group, North Africa Campaign |
| 1958 | USA | South Pacific | Joshua Logan | Musical set in the Pacific Theater |
| 1958 | Czechoslovakia | Tenkrát o Vánocích | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front, Christmas 1944 |
| 1958 | UK | The Battle of the V 1 | Vernon Sewell | Polish resisters spy on German rocket tests |
| 1958 | UK | The Camp on Blood Island | Val Guest | British and Dutch POWs in Malaya |
| 1958 | UK | The Key | Carol Reed | The Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1958 | USA | The Naked and the Dead | Raoul Walsh | The Pacific War |
| 1958 | UK | The Wind Cannot Read | Ralph Thomas | The RAF in Burma |
| 1958 | USA | The Young Lions | Edward Dmytryk | Story of 3 soldiers during World War II. One is German, Two others are American (one of them is Jewish) |
| 1958 | USA | Imitation General | George Marshall | [Comedy] Europe. Sergeant impersonates a fallen general in the hope of inspiring his fellow soldiers |
| 1958 | Poland | Wolne miasto (Free City) | Stanisław Różewicz | Gdańsk Polish Campaign 1939 |
| 1958 | China | Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo | Ping Wang | Communist Party undercover agents operate in Shanghai in 1939 against the Japanese. |
| 1959 | USSR | Ballad of a Soldier | Grigori Chukhrai | |
| 1959 | Poland | Biały niedźwiedź (White Bear) | Jerzy Zarzycki | Poland 1941, Tatra Mountain Zakopane, Holocaust |
| 1959 | Poland | Cafe Pod Minogą (Octopus Cafe) | Bronisław Brok | Polish Resistance Comedy |
| 1959 | USA | The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | The biography of Anne Frank. |
| 1959 | West Germany | Die Brücke | Bernhard Wicki | The Western Front |
| 1959 | Italy France |
Estate Violenta | Valerio Zurlini | Dismissal of Benito Mussolini during the Allied invasion of Sicily. |
| 1959 | Japan | Fires on the Plain | Kon Ichikawa | War in the Philippines. |
| 1959 | Italy | General della Rovere | Roberto Rossellini | A petty thief, who is hired by the Nazis, impersonating an Italian resistance leader. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli. |
| 1959 | Japan France |
Hiroshima Mon Amour | Alain Resnais | |
| 1959 | Poland | Kamienne niebo (The Stone Sky) | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | The Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1959 | Poland | Lotna | Andrzej Wajda | The Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1959 | USA | Never So Few | John Sturges | The Burma Campaign |
| 1959 | Japan | Ningen no joken I (The Human Condition: No Greater Love) | Masaki Kobayashi | Japanese resistance; Manchukuo |
| 1959 | Japan | Ningen no joken II (The Human Condition: Road to Eternity) | Masaki Kobayashi | Japanese resistance |
| 1959 | USSR | Sudba Cheloveka (Destiny of a Man) | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet POWs in Germany, based on short story by Mikhail Sholokhov |
| 1959 | USA | Ten Seconds to Hell | Robert Aldrich | A German bomb disposal squad in post-war Berlin |
| 1959 | Poland | Zamach | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish Resistance - Operation Kutschera, 1944 |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Denmark | Frihedens Pris | Annelise Hovmand | |
| 1960 | Denmark | Den sidste vinter | Edvin Tiemroth, Anker Sørensen | |
| 1960 | Czechoslovakia | Práče | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovak army on the Eastern Front. |
| 1960 | Japan | Storm Over the Pacific | Shuei Matsubayashi | A story about a pilot who serves on the Japanese carrier Hiryu in the battles of Pearl Harbor and Midway |
| 1960 | France | Un taxi pour Tobrouk | Denys de La Patellière | A group of Free French commandos in North Africa try to reach Allied lines and capture a German officer. |
| 1960 | USA | Hell to Eternity | Phil Karlson | The Battle of Saipan; also shows discrimination against Japanese-Americans during World War II |
| 1960 | UK | Sink the Bismarck! | Lewis Gilbert | Operation Rheinübung, part of the Second Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1960 | Italy | Escape by Night | Roberto Rossellini | |
| 1960 | Italy | Everybody Go Home | Luigi Comencini | The Four days of Naples. |
| 1960 | Italy | Long Night in 1943 | Florestano Vancini | The Allied invasion of Italy. |
| 1960 | Italy | Two Women | Vittorio De Sica | |
| 1960 | Italy USA |
Under Ten Flags | Duilio Coletti | The Battle of the Atlantic. |
| 1961 | Denmark | Alarm i Østersøen | Sven Methling | |
| 1961 | USA France |
Bridge to the Sun | Etienne Périer | The life of Gwendolen Terasaki. |
| 1961 | East Germany | Der Fall Gleiwitz (The Gleiwitz Case) | Gerhard Klein | The 1939 Gleiwitz incident. |
| 1961 | Poland | Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (Tonight a City Will Die) | Jan Rybkowski | Dresden, Germany, 1945 |
| 1961 | India | Hum Dono | Amarjeet | Some part of Burma Campaign. |
| 1961 | Poland | Kwiecień (Spring) | Witold Lesiewicz | Germany Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1961 | Poland | Ludzie z pociągu (Night Train) | Kazimierz Kutz | Poland - The German Occupation |
| 1961 | Poland | Samson | Barbara Sas, Andrzej Wajda | The Holocaust in occupied Poland |
| 1961 | Poland | Świadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate) | Stanisław Różewicz | The Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1961 | Italy | The Fascist | Luciano Salce | |
| 1961 | UK | The Guns of Navarone | J. Lee Thompson | The Mediterranean Theatre |
| 1961 | UK | Very Important Person | Ken Annakin | Comedy - British POWs in a German camp |
| 1962 | Netherlands | Als twee druppels water | Fons Rademakers | A mystery novel adaptation about the Dutch resistance |
| 1962 | Netherlands | De Overval (The Raid) | Paul Rotha | Wartime prison raid |
| 1962 | USA | Hell Is for Heroes | Don Siegel | The Western front |
| 1962 | USA | Merrill's Marauders | Samuel Fuller | Merrill's Marauders |
| 1962 | Philippines | Suicide Commandoes | Armando Garces | Six Filipino Guerrilas received a task to bring their Lieutenant safe to a Japanese airport in order to destroy it during Battle of Bessang Pass. |
| 1962 | Italy | The Four Days of Naples | Nanni Loy | The Four Days of Naples. |
| 1962 | USA | The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Vincente Minnelli | Story of a German family, from Germany to Argentina and occupied France, between country, Nazism and anti-Nazism. |
| 1962 | USA | The Gallant Men | Various | American 5th Army in Italy |
| 1962 | USA | The Longest Day | Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton and Ken Annakin | The Normandy landings |
| 1962 | UK | The War Lover | Philip Leacock | American bomber crews station in England |
| 1962 | Poland | Walter P-38 (TV) | Edward Etler | Polish Resistance |
| 1962 | Greece | Psila ta Xeria Hitler (Stick them up, Hitler) | Panos Glykofridis | Black comedy about the Greek Resistance |
| 1963 | USA Philippines |
Cry of Battle | Irving Lerner | Mercenary fighting with partisans in The Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1963 | Poland | Gdzie jest generał... (Where is the General?) | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy, Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1963 | Poland | Na białym szlaku (On the White Trails) | Jarosław Brzozowski | War in Arctica |
| 1963 | Poland | Naganiacz (Manhunter) | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1963 | Poland | Pasażerka | Andrzej Munk | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 1963 | Philippines | Pinakamagandang hayop sa daigdig | Pablo Santiago | An heroic Filipina during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1963 | USA | PT 109 | Leslie H. Martinson | John F. Kennedy's Naval service on the Pacific Front |
| 1963 | USA | The Quick and the Dead | Robert Totten | The Fantastic Story of a Handful of Men and Two Girls Fighting Against Unbelievable Odds! Italian Campaign 1944. |
| 1963 | Philippines | Sierra Madre | Armando A. Herrera | The campaigns of two demolition men during Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1963 | Philippines | Sigaw ng Digmaan | Efren Reyes, Sr. | Philippine Army (1941) Resistance. |
| 1963 | Finland | Sissit | Mikko Niskanen | Guerrilla warfare during the Continuation War |
| 1963 | USA | The Great Escape | John Sturges | British and American POWs mount mass escape from Stalag Luft III |
| 1963 | UK | The Password is Courage | Andrew Stone | True story of Sergeant Major Charles Coward |
| 1963 | Philippines USA |
The Raiders of Leyte Gulf | Eddie Romero | Philippines before the Battle of Leyte. |
| 1963 | UK | The Victors | Carl Foreman | American soldiers in Europe following D-Day |
| 1964 | UK | 633 Squadron | Walter Grauman | Occupied Norway |
| 1964 | USA | The Americanization of Emily | Arthur Hiller | Planning for the Normandy landings |
| 1964 | Czechoslovakia | Atentát | Jiří Sequens | Operation Anthropoid |
| 1964 | USA | Back Door to Hell | Monte Hellman | Three-man team of United States soldiers preparing the way for Gen. MacArthur's return to the Philippines by destroying a Japanese communications center. |
| 1964 | Poland | Barwy walki (Battle Colours) | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish Resistance, 1944 |
| 1964 | Japan USA |
Flight from Ashiya | Michael Anderson | USAF pilots relive events in North Africa and the Pacific |
| 1964 | Poland | Giuseppe w Warszawie (Giuseppe In Warsaw) | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Cult comedy - Italian soldier in Poland, 1943 |
| 1964 | Philippines USA |
Intramuros (The Walls of Hell) | Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León | The Battle of Intramuros. |
| 1964 | Poland | Koniec naszego świata (End of our World) | Wanda Jakubowska | Auschwitz |
| 1964 | Philippines | Mga Kanyon ng Corregidor | Jose de Villa, Mar S. Torres | The Battle of Corregidor. |
| 1964 | Poland | Nieznany (The Unknown) | Witold Lesiewicz | Soviet Gulag / Eastern Front, 1943/44 |
| 1964 | USSR ( Georgian SSR) |
Otets soldata (Father of a Soldier) | Rezo Chkheidze (Revaz Tchkheidze) | |
| 1964 | Poland | Pierwszy dzień wolności (The First Day of Freedom) | Aleksander Ford | Germany, 1945, Polish POWs |
| 1964 | Poland | Ranny w lesie (Wounded in the Forest) | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish Resistance |
| 1964 | USA | Shell Shock | John Hayes | Italy during war. |
| 1964 | USA | The Thin Red Line | Andrew Marton | The Guadalcanal Campaign. |
| 1964 | USA France Italy |
The Train | John Frankenheimer | Resistance in Occupied France |
| 1964 | France | Week-end à Zuydcoote | Henri Verneuil | The Battle of Dunkirk |
| 1965 | USA | 36 Hours | George Seaton | On early June 1944, Germans kidnap an American officer and try to convince him that they are in 1948, that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe. |
| 1965 | USA | Battle of the Bulge | Ken Annakin | The Ardennes Offensive |
| 1965 | UK | The Heroes of Telemark | Anthony Mann | Norwegian resistance movement Operation Gunnerside |
| 1965 | UK | The Hill | Sidney Lumet | Life in a brutal military prison in North Africa |
| 1965 | USA | In Harm's Way | Otto Preminger | The Pacific Front |
| 1965 | USA | King Rat | Otto Preminger | POWs in asia. From James Clavell book. |
| 1965 | Philippines | Iginuhit ng Tadhana | Mar S. Torres, Jose de Villa, Conrado Conde | Biography of Ferdinand Marcos during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines |
| 1965 | USA Japan |
None But the Brave | Frank Sinatra | American and Japanese soldiers temporarily rely on each other for survival on a Pacific Island |
| 1965 | UK | Operation Crossbow (The Great Spy Mission) | Michael Anderson | Fictionalised version of Operation Crossbow |
| 1965 | Poland | Potem nastąpi cisza (And All Will Be Quiet) | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish Resistance, 1944 |
| 1965 | Philippines USA |
The Ravagers | Eddie Romero | Filipino guerrillas take on the last of the Japanese forces remaining on their country. |
| 1965 | Philippines | Sa Bawat Hakbang...Panganib | Armando A. Herrera | Five Filipino guerrillas is on a mission to rescue two American soldiers who have an important information that can help the guerrilla movement. |
| 1965 | UK | The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | Drama about the Von Trapp family in Austria |
| 1965 | Japan | Story of a Prostitute | Seijun Suzuki | Second Sino-Japanese War |
| 1965 | China | Tunnel War | Ren Xudong | Tunnel warfare in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War |
| 1965 | USA | Von Ryan's Express | Mark Robson | British and American POWs escape from Italian camps |
| 1965 | Poland France West Germany |
Czas pokoju (TV) | Tadeusz Konwicki | Poland - German Occupation |
| 1965 | Poland | Buty (The Boots) (TV) | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Eastern Front, military hospital |
| 1965 | Poland | Nazajutrz po wojnie (The Day after the War) (TV) | Lech Lorentowicz | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1965 | Poland | Córeczka (The Little Daughter) (TV) | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Poland, 1944 |
| 1965 | Poland | Śmierć w środkowym pokoju (Death In the Middle Room) (TV) | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Poland - German Occupation |
| 1965 | Poland | Wózek (The Cart) (TV) | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Poland Soviet POWs |
| 1965 | Poland | Podziemny front (The Underground Front) (TV series) | Hubert Drapella, Seweryn Nowicki | Polish Resistance, 1941–45 |
| 1966 | UK France |
The Night of the Generals | Anatole Litvak | The July 20 plot |
| 1966 | France | La ligne de démarcation | Claude Chabrol | In 1941, the life in a little town cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the unoccupied zone |
| 1966 | USA France |
Is Paris Burning? | René Clément | The Liberation of Paris |
| 1966 | Czechoslovakia | Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky) | Jiří Menzel | |
| 1966 | USA | What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | Blake Edwards | The Allied invasion of Sicily |
| 1966 | Poland | Don Gabriel | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Polish Campaign, 1939 - Comedy |
| 1966 | Denmark | Der var engang en krig (Once There Was a War) | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | About the life of a boy after the occupation |
| 1966 | Poland | Kontrybucja (Contribution) | Jan Łomnicki | Polish Resistance |
| 1966 | Poland | Mistrz (The Master) (TV) | Jerzy Antczak | Poland - German Occupation |
| 1966 | France | La Grande Vadrouille | Gérard Oury | Comedy about RAF aircrew escaping through occupied France aided by two Frenchmen with very different mindsets |
| 1967 | UK | Attack on the Iron Coast | Paul Wendkos | Loosely based on the St Nazaire Raid |
| 1967 | USA | Beach Red | Cornel Wilde | The Pacific Theater of Operations |
| 1967 | Poland | Długa noc (Long Night) | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish Resistance German Occupation, 1943 |
| 1967 | Poland West Germany |
Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią (Rassenschande: When Love Was a Crime) | Jan Rybkowski | Germany during the war |
| 1967 | Poland | Morderca zostawia ślad (The Killer Leaves a Trace) | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Polish Resistance |
| 1967 | Japan | Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (Japan's Longest Day) | Kihachi Okamoto | The Kyūjō Incident. |
| 1967 | USA | The Dirty Dozen | Robert Aldrich | Battle of Normandy |
| 1967 | Poland | Westerplatte | Stanisław Różewicz | Battle of Westerplatte |
| 1967 | Poland | Zosia (Zosya) | Jerzy Lipman | Poland - Eastern Front - Love story |
| 1967 | Poland | Zwariowana noc (A Crazy Night) | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Polish Resistance, Comedy |
| 1968 | Philippines | Ang Mangliligpit | Pablo Santiago | Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Makapili. |
| 1968 | Italy | Anzio | Edward Dmytryk | The Battle of Anzio |
| 1968 | USA | Hell in the Pacific | John Boorman | Marooned American and Japanese soldiers on an unnamed Japanese island |
| 1968 | USSR ( Estonian SSR) |
Inimesed sõdurisinelis | Jüri Müür | Mobilized Estonians in the Red Army |
| 1968 | USSR ( Georgian SSR) |
Jvartsmuli kundzuli | Shota Managadze | |
| 1968 | Poland | Kierunek Berlin (Heading for Berlin) | Jerzy Passendorfer | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1968 | Philippines | Manila, Open City | Eddie Romero | The Manila Massacre and the Battle of Manila. |
| 1968 | Czechoslovakia | Nebeští jezdci | Jindřich Polák | Czech pilots in the RAF |
| 1968 | Albania | Prita (Ambush) | Mithat Fagu | Albanian resistance under German occupation, 1943 |
| 1968 | USSR | Shchit i mech (Shield and Sword) | Vladimir Basov | Soviet spy in German intelligence [6] |
| 1968 | UK | Submarine X-1 | William A. Graham | Royal Navy midget submarines |
| 1968 | USA | The Devil's Brigade | Andrew V. McLaglen | The Devil's Brigade |
| 1968 | USA | The Hell with Heroes | Joseph Sargent | In 1946 North Africa, two former USAF pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life |
| 1968 | Japan | The Human Bullet | Kihachi Okamato | Story of a kamikaze soldier |
| 1968 | USA | The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Jack Smight | Comedy about Generals held in a special POW camp |
| 1968 | USA | Where Eagles Dare | Brian G. Hutton | Allied operation to rescue a captured American General |
| 1969 | France Italy |
Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | French Resistance |
| 1969 | UK | Battle of Britain | Guy Hamilton | The Battle of Britain |
| 1969 | Poland | Dzień oczyszczenia (Day of Purification) | Jerzy Passendorfer | Polish Resistance and Soviet Partisans - Poland, 1944 |
| 1969 | Italy | Eagles Over London | Enzo G. Castellari | British military officers are in pursuit of a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs though war-ravaged London. |
| 1969 | Poland | Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I Unleashed the Second World War) | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy - Polish Campaign 1939, Yugoslavia, Africa, Italy, Poland, 1944 |
| 1969 | Poland | Jarzębina czerwona (Red Rowan) | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Battle of Kolberg (1945), on the Eastern Front |
| 1969 | Italy | La Battaglia di El Alamein | Giorgio Ferroni | The Second Battle of El Alamein |
| 1969 | USSR | Liberation | Yuri Ozerov | Eastern Front chronicle of battles from Battle for Kursk to the Fall of Berlin |
| 1969 | UK | Mosquito Squadron | Boris Sagal | A British bomber squadron must destroy Germany's new Vergeltungswaffe at a research camp |
| 1969 | Albania | Njësiti guerril (The Guerrilla Unit) | Hysen Hakani | Guerrilla resistance in Tirana during the occupation of Albania by Fascist Italy |
| 1969 | Poland | Ostatnie dni (The Last Days) | Jerzy Passendorfer | Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1969 | Philippines | Pambihirang tatlo | Felix Villar | A mission to destroy the Japanese bastion along the San Bernardino Strait. |
| 1969 | UK | Play Dirty | Andre de Toth | The North African Campaign |
| 1969 | Italy | Salt in the Wound | Tonino Ricci | |
| 1969 | Poland | Sąsiedzi (The Neighbours) | Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski | Bydgoszcz Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1969 | Yugoslavia | The Battle of Neretva | Veljko Bulajić | The Battle of Neretva |
| 1969 | USA | The Bridge at Remagen | John Guillermin | Operation Lumberjack, on the Western Front |
| 1969 | USA | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Stanley Kramer | The aftermath of the fall of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini |
| 1969 | Poland | Wniebowstąpienie (Ascension Day) | Jan Rybkowski | Poland Lwów Soviet / German Occupation, 1941 |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Denmark | Oktoberdage | Bent Christensen | |
| 1970 | USA | Catch-22 | Mike Nichols | The Italian Campaign |
| 1970 | Japan | Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' | Hiromichi Horikawa | Hideki Tōjō's biography during Pacific War. |
| 1970 | UK USA |
Hell Boats | Paul Wendkos | British motor torpedo boats operating in the Mediterranean |
| 1970 | USA Italy |
Hornet's Nest | Phil Karlson, Franco Cirino | Italian Campaign - Commando and partisan raid to destroy a dam |
| 1970 | USA Yugoslavia |
Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | The Western Front |
| 1970 | Poland | Kolumbowie | Janusz Morgenstern | Powstanie Warszawskie, 1944 |
| 1970 | Poland USSR |
Legenda | Sylwester Chęciński | Polish Resistance |
| 1970 | Philippines | Maharlika (Guerrilla Strike Force) | Jerry Hopper | Japanese invasion of Manila Bay. |
| 1970 | USA | Patton | Franklin Schaffner | General George S. Patton |
| 1970 | Japan | Saigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze) | Yahagi Toshihiko | Kamikaze attacks. |
| 1970 | Philippines | Santiago! | Lino Brocka | Life in occupied Philippines. |
| 1970 | Italy Russia |
Sunflower (I Girasoli) | Vittorio De Sica | The first Occidental film to be made in the USSR. |
| 1970 | UK | The Last Escape | Walter Grauman | British commandos on a mission to kidnap a German scientist |
| 1970 | USA | Too Late the Hero | Robert Aldrich | British commando raid in the Pacific Campaign |
| 1970 | USA Japan |
Tora! Tora! Tora! | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda | The Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 1970 | Poland | Twarz anioła (Face of an Angel) | Zbigniew Chmielewski | Poland - Children in a German concentration camp |
| 1970 | Poland | Znicz olimpijski (Olympic Fire) | Lech Lorentowicz | Tatra Mountains in Poland, Zakopane Polish Resistance |
| 1971 | Poland | Agent nr 1 | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, a Polish SOE agent in the Greek resistance |
| 1971 | USA | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Robert Stevenson | Disney children's musical - German raid on England in 1940 repulsed with magic |
| 1971 | UK | Dad's Army | Norman Cohen | Comedy about the British Home Guard, based on the TV series. |
| 1971 | Japan | Gekido no Showashi:Okinawa kessen | Kihachi Okamoto | The Battle of Okinawa from the eyes of the Army, Navy, Air Force, civilians, and the Generals who commanded them |
| 1971 | UK | Murphy's War | Peter Yates | The Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1971 | USSR | Proverka na dorogakh (Trial on the Road) | Aleksei German | Winter, 1942. A former Russian POW joins the partisans. |
| 1971 | USA | Raid on Rommel | Henry Hathaway | North African Campaign |
| 1971 | Philippines | Sangre | Armando Garces | Battle of Filipino Guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army. |
| 1971 | Greece | Ti ekanes sto polemo Thanasi; (What did you do during the war Thanasis?) | Dinos Katsourides | Greek Resistance comedy |
| 1971 | Poland | Trzecia część nocy (The Third Part of the Night) | Andrzej Żuławski | Polish Resistance |
| 1972 | India | Lalkar | Ramanand Sagar | Burma Campaign, 1941–1945 |
| 1973 | Philippines | Dugo ng Bayan | Armando A. Herrera | Remake Version; Filipino Resistance.[7] |
| 1973 | Italy UK |
Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Ennio De Concini | The last days of Adolf Hitler during the Battle of Berlin |
| 1973 | Poland | Hubal | Bohdan Poręba | Polish Campaign, 1939/1940 |
| 1973 | France | Le Train (The Last Train or The Train) | Pierre Granier-Deferre | A Frenchman and a Jewish German woman met on a train while escaping the German army entering France |
| 1973 | China | Little 8th Route Army | Lei You | Chinese animated puppet film; The Second Sino-Japanese War. |
| 1973 | France | Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? (Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?) | Robert Lamoureux | Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 débâcle |
| 1973 | Italy | Massacre in Rome | George P. Cosmatos | The Ardeatine massacre. |
| 1973 | Yugoslavia | The Battle of Sutjeska | Stipe Delić | Battle of the Sutjeska. |
| 1973 | Hong Kong | When Taekwondo Strikes | Feng Huang | |
| 1973 | Poland | Zasieki (Barbed Wire) | Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski | Polish Campaign, 1939, Soviet Gulag, Eastern Front 1943 |
| 1974 | France West Germany Italy |
Lacombe Lucien | Louis Malle | French resistance and collaboration |
| 1974 | USSR ( Estonian SSR) |
Ohtlikud mängud | Veljo Käsper | The Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany |
| 1974 | France | Les guichets du Louvre | Michel Mitrani | The first big roundup of Jews in 1942 Paris, and the story of a man who tries to save as many Jews as he can. |
| 1974 | Poland | Głowy pełne gwiazd (Heads Full of Stars) | Janusz Kondratiuk | Poland - German Occupation, Eastern Front, 1944 |
| 1974 | Poland USSR |
Zapamiętaj imię swoje (Pomni imya svoye or Remember Your Name) | Siergiej Kołosow | Tragedy of children in war |
| 1974 | Republic of China | The Everlasting Glory (英烈千秋) | Tin Shan Sui | Zhang Zizhong's biography movie during Second Sino-Japanese War. |
| 1975 | East Germany Czechoslovakia |
Jacob, the Liar | Frank Beyer | |
| 1975 | USA Czechoslovakia |
Operation Daybreak | Lewis Gilbert | Operation Anthropoid |
| 1975 | France | On a retrouvé la 7e compagnie | Robert Lamoureux | Comic story about 3 French signal corpsmen during the May 1940 Débâcle, and in an officers POW camp, in a castle. |
| 1975 | Greece | The Travelling Players | Theodoros Angelopoulos | The German invasion and occupation of Greece |
| 1975 | France | Section spéciale | Costa-Gavras | During the French Occupation, hours in a special court room where judges are asked to condemn to death penalty people who didn't do anything, to please Germans. |
| 1975 | Italy | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| 1975 | Poland | W te dni przedwiosenne (In the Days Before the Spring) | Andrzej Konic | The Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1975 | Poland | Partita na instrument drewniany (A Partita for a Woodwind Instrument) | Janusz Zaorski | Polish Resistance |
| 1975 | Poland | Moja wojna, moja miłość (My War - My Love) | Janusz Nasfeter | Polish Campaign 1939 |
| 1975 | Poland | Opadły liście z drzew (Leaves Have Fallen) | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1975 | UK | Overlord | Stuart Cooper | A young soldier trains with the East Yorkshire Regiment in preparation for the Normandy landings |
| 1975 | USSR | В бой идут одни старики (V boy idut odni stariki) Only Old Men Are Going to Battle |
Leonid Bykov | Soviet World War II pilots. |
| 1976 | Japan | Barefoot Gen | Tengo Yamada | Live-action depiction of the dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan |
| 1976 | Denmark | Den korte sommer (The Brief Summer) | Edward Fleming | Woman gets in love with a German soldier |
| 1976 | USA | Farewell to Manzanar (TV) | John Korty | The story of the Japanese American internment camp of Manzanar |
| 1976 | Republic of China | Mei hua | Chia Chang Liu | The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945). |
| 1976 | USA | Midway (The Battle of Midway) | Jack Smight | The Battle of Midway |
| 1976 | France Italy |
Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein) | Joseph Losey | French resistance and collaboration |
| 1976 | Poland | Ocalić miasto | Jan Łomnicki | Kraków - Eastern Front, 1945 |
| 1976 | Poland | Polskie drogi (Polish Roads) (TV series) | Krzysztof Prymek, Janusz Morgenstern | Poland, 1939–43 |
| 1976 | Poland | Ptaki, ptakom... (Birds to Birds) | Paweł Komorowski | Silesia Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1976 | Philippines | Tatlong taong walang Diyos | Mario O'Hara | The Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1976 | UK | The Eagle Has Landed | John Sturges | A fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill |
| 1976 | Japan | Zero Pilot | Seiji Maruyama | Based on the book Samurai!; Saburō Sakai's biography while piloting Mitsubishi A6M Zero. |
| 1977 | UK USA |
A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | Operation Market Garden |
| 1977 | Poland | Akcja pod Arsenałem (Operation Arsenal) | Jana Łomnicki | Polish resistance, 1943 |
| 1977 | UK West Germany |
Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | German soldiers on the Russian Front |
| 1977 | France | La septième compagnie au clair de lune | Robert Lamoureux | Comic story about three French veterans who resist the Germans. |
| 1977 | USA | MacArthur | Joseph Sargent | General Douglas MacArthur |
| 1977 | Poland | Ostatnie okrążenie (The Last Round) (TV) | Krzysztof Rogulski, Ludmiła Niedbalska | Poland - History of Olympic champion Janusz Kusociński, murdered by the Gestapo |
| 1977 | Poland | Palace Hotel | Ewa Kruk | Poland, 1939–44 |
| 1977 | Netherlands | Soldier of Orange (Survival Run) | Paul Verhoeven | Dutch resistance |
| 1977 | USSR | Восхождение (Voskhozhdeniye) The Ascent |
Larisa Shepitko | During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), two Soviet partisans go to a Belarusian village in search of food. On their way back they were spotted by a German patrol. |
| 1977 | Czechoslovakia | Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem | Jindrich Polák | |
| 1978 | Poland | ... Gdziekolwiek jesteś Panie Prezydencie (Wherever You Are, Mr. President) | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Warsaw - Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1978 | Poland | Do krwi ostatniej (To the Last Drop of Blood) | Jerzy Hoffman | Eastern Front, 1943 |
| 1978 | UK | Force 10 from Navarone | Guy Hamilton | British commando raid in Yugoslavia |
| 1978 | USA | Holocaust | Marvin J. Chomsky | Four-part miniseries about the Holocaust |
| 1978 | Netherlands | Pastorale 1943 | Wim Verstappen | Dutch resistance |
| 1978 | Italy | Quel maledetto treno blindato | Enzo G. Castellari | |
| 1978 | Poland | Sto koni do stu brzegów (A Hundred Horses to a Hundred Shores) | Zbigniew Kuźmiński | A courier travelling through Europe has to deliver a special letter to London |
| 1978 | Poland | Szpital przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration) | Edward Żebrowski | German action T4 in a Polish psychiatric hospital |
| 1978 | Poland | Umarli rzucają cień (Shadow dead) | Julian Dziedzina | Silesia Polish Resistance |
| 1979 | USSR ( Estonian SSR) |
Tuulte pesa | Olev Neuland | Forest Brothers |
| 1979 | UK | Yanks | John Schlesinger | Americans stationed in England |
| 1979 | UK | Escape to Athena | George Pan Cosmatos | German-occupied Greece |
| 1979 | UK USA |
Hanover Street | Peter Hyams | American bomber crews based in England |
| 1979 | Poland | Elegia | Paweł Komorowski | Eastern Front 1945 |
| 1979 | USA | Ike (miniseries) | Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson | Story (and love) of General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. |
| 1979 | Poland | Gwiazdy poranne (Morning Stars) | Henryk Bielski | Eastern Front, 1944 |
| 1979 | Poland | Droga daleka przed nami (A Long Way to Go) | Władysław Ślesicki | Escape from a POW camp |
| 1979 | Poland | Zielone lata (Salad Days) | Stanisław Jędryka | Poland Sosnowiec, tragedy of children in war |
| 1979 | Albania | Radiostacioni | Rikard Ljarja | |
| 1979 | Poland | Sekret Enigmy (Secret of Enigma) | Roman Wionczek | Poland, France, England - Enigma |
| 1979 | West Germany | Sergeant Steiner (Breakthrough) | Andrew V. McLaglen | The July 20 plot |
| 1979 | Italy France Spain |
From Hell to Victory | "Hank Milestone" (Umberto Lenzi) |
Occupied Europe |
| 1979 | USA | 1941 | Steven Spielberg | California, one week after the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Poland | Dzień Wisły (Vistula Day) | Tadeusz Kijański | Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Poland | Godzina "W" ('W' Hour) | Janusz Morgenstern | Polish Resistance - Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Philippines | Kalibre .45 | Nilo Saez | A story of vengeance set during the near end of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1980 | Poland | Olimpiada '40 | Andrzej Kotkowski | A POW Camp, 1940 |
| 1980 | USA | The Big Red One | Samuel Fuller | U.S. 1st Infantry Division, 1942-45 in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe |
| 1980 | USA | The Final Countdown (U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific) | Don Taylor | Science fiction movie. The nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz is lost in a storm, then arrives at the same place in the Pacific on December 7, 1941, and meets Japanese aircraft en route to Pearl Harbor. |
| 1980 | France | The Last Metro | François Truffaut | The German occupation of France during World War II. |
| 1980 | UK Switzerland USA |
The Sea Wolves | Andrew V. McLaglen | Calcutta Light Horse |
| 1980 | Poland | Urodziny młodego warszawiaka (The Birthday) | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Campaign, 1939 - Polish Resistance, Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1980 | Poland | Wyrok śmierci (The Death Sentence) | Witold Orzechowski | Poland, Zamość, Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | France | Allons Z'enfants | Yves Boisset | A cadet in a French military school doesn't like the army and is taken in the 1939-40 war. |
| 1981 | Poland | Bołdyn (General Boldyn) | Ewa Petelska, Czesław Petelski | Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | West Germany | Das Boot (The Boat) | Wolfgang Petersen | The Battle of the Atlantic |
| 1981 | USA | Escape to Victory (Victory) | John Huston | A football match between German soldiers and Allied POWs |
| 1981 | UK | Eye of the Needle | Richard Marquand | A German spy in England before D-Day |
| 1981 | Netherlands | Het meisje met het rode haar (The Girl with the Red Hair) | Ben Verbong | Dutch resistance |
| 1981 | France | Les uns et les autres (Bolero: dance of life) | Claude Lelouch | Four families with different backgrounds and nationalities are followed from the 1930s to the 1980s as their paths cross time and again. |
| 1981 | Japan | Rengo kantai (The Imperial Navy) | Shûe Matsubayashi | The Operation Ten-Go. |
| 1981 | Poland | Ryś (Lynx: The Smile of the Evil Eye) | Stanisław Różewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1981 | USA | The Bunker | George Schaefer | Based on the book The Bunker; The last days of Adolf Hitler. |
| 1982 | Australia | Attack Force Z | Tim Burstall | Z Special Unit |
| 1982 | West Germany | Die Weiße Rose | Michael Verhoeven | The execution of White Rose members. |
| 1982 | Poland | Do góry nogami (Upside Down) | Stanisław Jędryka | Polish Silesia, tragedy of children in war |
| 1982 | Poland | Haracz szarego dnia (Tribute of grey day) | Krzysztof Prymek, Roman Wionczek | Polish Resistance |
| 1982 | Philippines | Oro, Plata, Mata | Peque Gallaga | The Fall of Corregidor. |
| 1982 | Poland | Popielec (Ash Wednesday) (TV) | Ryszard Ber | A Polish village during the German occupation |
| 1982 | USA | Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | Holocaust |
| 1982 | Australia | The Highest Honour (Heroes of the Krait, Southern Cross) | Seiji Maruyama, Peter Maxwell | Operation Rimau |
| 1983 | Japan | Barefoot Gen | Mori Masaki | Anime film: depiction of the dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan |
| 1983 | Hong Kong | Hong Kong, 1941 | Leong Po-Chih | The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong |
| 1983 | Denmark | Forræderne | Ole Roos | |
| 1983 | Poland | Kartka z podróży (Postcard from a Journey) | Waldemar Dziki | Poland Holocaust |
| 1983 | Poland | Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (The Crash off Gibraltar) | Bohdan Poręba | General Wladysław Sikorski, 1943 |
| 1983 | UK Japan |
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | British POWs on Java Island |
| 1983 | Poland | Nie było słońca tej wiosny (Was not suns this springs) | Juliusz Janicki | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | China | One and Eight | Zhang Junzhao | Criminals and deserters from the Eighth Route Army battle Japanese in China |
| 1983 | France | Papy fait de la résistance | Jean-Marie Poiré | (Comedy) French Resistance in Occupied France |
| 1983 | Philippines | Roman Rapido | Argel Joseph | Battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrillas with the Imperial Japanese Army. |
| 1983 | USA UK Italy |
The Scarlet and the Black | Jerry London | Biographical film about Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. |
| 1983 | Poland | Tragarz puchu (Dawn Porter) (TV) | Stefan Szlachtycz | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | Poland West Germany |
Wedle wyroków twoich... (After Your Decrees, Blutiger Schnee) | Jerzy Hoffman | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1983 | USA | Winds of War | Dan Curtis | The saga of a family and events leading up to the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Based on the novel by Herman Wouk. |
| 1984 | USSR ( Estonian SSR) |
Võõra nime all | Peeter Urbla | Estonians in a Soviet camp |
| 1984 | Poland | Na straży swej stać będę (I Shall Always Stand Guard) | Kazimierz Kutz | Silesia, 1939-42 Polish Resistance |
| 1984 | Poland | Dzień czwarty (The Fourth Day) | Ludmiła Niedbalska | The Warsaw Uprising, 1944 |
| 1984 | Poland | Romans z intruzem (Romance with the Intruder) | Waldemar Podgórski | The Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 1984 | Poland | Umarłem, aby żyć (I Died to Live) (TV) | Stanisław Jędryka | Polish Resistance, 1941 |
| 1984 | China | Yellow Earth | Chen Kaige | The Second Sino-Japanese War. |
| 1984 | Australia | The Last Bastion | Chris Thompson | TV mini-series on WWII from the Australian perspective. |
| 1985 | USSR | The Battle for Moscow | Yuri Ozerov | Operation Barbarossa to the Battle of Moscow |
| 1985 | USA | Code Name: Emerald | Jonathan Sanger | Battle of Normandy |
| 1985 | USSR | Come and See | Elem Klimov | The Eastern Front |
| 1985 | Netherlands | De IJssalon (The Ice-cream Parlour) | Dimitri Frenkel Frank | A romance between a Dutch woman and a German officer |
| 1985 | Netherlands | Het bittere kruid (Bitter Sweet) | Kees van Oostrum | A Jewish family hiding in wartime Amsterdam |
| 1985 | Poland Czechoslovakia |
Kukułka w ciemnym lesie (Cuckoo in a Dark Forest) | Antonín Moskalyk | Children in war |
| 1985 | Romania | Noi, cei din linia întâi | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Romanians fighting on the western front and in Hungary |
| 1985 | Japan | Seburi Monogatari (The Seburi Story) | Sadao Nakajima | Hardships of nomadic Seburi people during wartime. |
| 1985 | Poland | Tate (Dad) | Jan Rutkiewicz | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1985 | Japan | The Burmese Harp | Kon Ichikawa | Remake Version; The Burma Campaign |
| 1985 | Finland | The Unknown Soldier | Rauni Mollberg | The Finno-Soviet Continuation War |
| 1985 | Poland | W cieniu nienawiści (In the Shadow of Hatred) | Wojciech Żółtowski | The Holocaust in Poland, 1943 |
| 1986 | Netherlands | In de schaduw van de overwinning (In the shadow of victory) | Ate de Jong | Dutch resistance |
| 1986 | Poland Switzerland |
Kołysanka (The Lullabye) | Federo Sevella | The Holocaust in Poland |
| 1986 | Poland | Okruchy wojny (Crumbs of War) | Andrzej Barszczyński, Jan Chodkiewicz | Polish Resistance |
| 1986 | Netherlands | The Assault (De Aanslag) | Fons Rademakers | An Academy Award for Best Foreign Film-winning novel adaptation |
| 1986 | Japan | Umi to dokuyaku (The Sea and Poison) | Kei Kumai | The Pacific War. |
| 1987 | UK USA Yugoslavia |
Escape from Sobibor | Jack Gold | Sobibor Uprising during the Holocaust |
| 1987 | UK USA Yugoslavia |
The Misfit Brigade (Wheels of Terror) | Gordon Hessler | |
| 1987 | France | Au revoir, les enfants | Louis Malle | Three Jewish boys are given shelter and a new identity in a Catholic boarding school in Vichy France |
| 1987 | USA | Empire of the Sun | Steven Spielberg | British and American prisoners in a Japanese internment camp outside Shanghai |
| 1987 | UK | Hope and Glory | John Boorman | The Blitz |
| 1988 | China | Evening Bell | Wu Ziniu | Immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War in China |
| 1988 | USA | Farewell to the King | John Milius | Anti-Japanese resistance on Borneo |
| 1988 | Japan | Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata | The Firebombing of Kobe |
| 1988 | Poland USA |
I skrzypce przestały grać (And the Violins Stopped Playing) | Alexander Ramati | Gipsy - The Holocaust |
| 1988 | Poland | Kornblumenblau | Leszek Wosiewicz | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 1988 | Hong Kong | Men Behind the Sun | Mou Tun Fei | The Japanese human experimentation on the Chinese. |
| 1988 | Poland USSR |
Przeprawa (Passage) | Wiktor Turow | Operation Sturmwind, 1944 - Polish Resistance and Soviet partisans |
| 1988 | China | Red Sorghum | Zhang Yimou | Young woman's life working at a kaoliang distillery during the Second Sino-Japanese War |
| 1988 | UK | Return from the River Kwai | Andrew V. McLaglen | British POWs in Japan |
| 1988 | Netherlands UK |
Shadow Man | Piotr Andrejew | A refugee hiding in wartime Amsterdam |
| 1988 | Japan | Tomorrow | Kazuo Kuroki | The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| 1988 | USA | War & Remembrance | Dan Curtis | The saga of a family, during the 1930s-1940s. Based on the novel by Herman Wouk. |
| 1989 | Japan | Black Rain | Shohei Imamura | The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima. |
| 1989 | Philippines | Comfort Women: A Cry for Justice | Celso Ad. Castillo | The life of a Filipina comfort women during Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 1989 | USA | Fat Man and Little Boy | Roland Joffé | The Manhattan project |
| 1989 | USSR | Stalingrad | Yuri Ozerov | The Battle for Stalingrad |
| 1989 | Finland | Talvisota | Pekka Parikka | The Winter War |
| 1989 | USA | Triumph of the Spirit | Robert M. Young | The story of Salamo Arouch |
| 1989 | Poland | Virtuti | Jacek Butrymowicz | The Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Australia | Blood Oath | Stephen Wallace | Japanese war crimes trial for the Laha massacre |
| 1990 | France | Docteur Petiot | Christian de Chalonge | Serial killer Marcel Petiot in Occupied France |
| 1990 | Germany | Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | A Jewish boy, concealing his identity, joins the Hitler Youth |
| 1990 | Sweden | Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | Kjell Grede | Story of Raoul Wallenberg |
| 1990 | Poland | Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | The Holocaust in Poland: life of Dr. Korczak in the Warsaw ghetto |
| 1990 | USA | A Man Called Sarge | Stuart Gillard | Comedy - Western Desert Campaign, Second Battle of El Alamein and capture of Tobruk |
| 1990 | USA | Memphis Belle | Michael Caton-Jones | Story of the B-17 bomber called the Memphis Belle |
| 1991 | Poland | Jeszcze tylko ten las (Just Beyond That Forest) | Jan Łomnicki | The Holocaust |
| 1991 | Denmark | Drengene fra Sankt Petri (The Boys from St. Petri) | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Danish resistance group |
| 1991 | Denmark | De nøgne træer | Morten Henriksen | |
| 1991 | Poland Germany France |
Tragarz puchu (Warsaw - Year 5703) | Janusz Kijowski | The Holocaust |
| 1991 | Italy | Mediterraneo | Gabriele Salvatores | Italian soldiers on a Greek island |
| 1992 | Denmark USA |
En dag i oktober (A Day in October) | Kenneth Madsen | About the movement of Danish Jews out of Denmark to neutral Sweden in the 1940s |
| 1992 | Poland | Pierścionek z orłem w koronie (Ring with a Crowned Eagle) | Andrzej Wajda | Polish Resistance, 1945/46 |
| 1992 | Poland | Wszystko, co najważniejsze (All That Really Matters) | Robert Gliński | Poland Lwów Soviet Occupation, Gulag |
| 1992 | USA | A Midnight Clear | Keith Gordon | The Western Front |
| 1993 | Romania | Oglinda | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Downfall of Ion Antonescu |
| 1993 | Estonia Poland |
Saatana pisar (Satan's Tear) | Marek Piestrak | NKVD actions in Estonia and Poland, 1939. |
| 1993 | USA | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | The story of Oskar Schindler, who saves about 1100 Jews from The Holocaust. |
| 1993 | Germany | Stalingrad | Joseph Vilsmaier | The Battle of Stalingrad. |
| 1993 | USA | Swing Kids | Thomas Carter | A college student forced into the Hitler-Jugend but is also a Swing Kid. |
| 1993 | Republic of China | The Puppetmaster | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | The Japanese occupation of Taiwan (1937-1945). |
| 1994 | France | Un jour avant l'aube | Jacques Ertaud | Story of a French SAS commando in Brittany, during the Normandy battle in 1944. |
| 1995 | China | Don't Cry, Nanking | Wu Ziniu | Nanking Massacre |
| 1995 | Canada Japan |
Hiroshima | Roger Spottiswoode | The atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| 1995 | Denmark | Kun en pige (Just a Girl) | Peter Schrøder | About Lise Tønder Jensens life until the end of the war |
| 1995 | USA | The Tuskegee Airmen | Robert Markowitz | The story of the first African-American pilots |
| 1995 | China | Red Cherry | Ye Ying | Boarding school children in the German-occupied Soviet Union |
| 1995 | USA | Sahara | Brian Trenchard-Smith | The Western Desert Campaign |
| 1995 | Serbia | Underground | Emir Kusturica | German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia |
| 1995 | Великий полководец Георгий Жуков (Velikiy polkovodets Georgiy Zhukov) The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov |
Yuri Ozerov | Biopic about Marshal Georgy Zhukov. | |
| 1995 | Poland France Germany |
Wielki tydzień (Holy Week) | Andrzej Wajda | The Holocaust |
| 1996 | USA | The Ring | Armand Mastroianni | During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis |
| 1996 | UK | The Brylcreem Boys | Terence Ryan | British and German pilots interned in neutral Ireland |
| 1996 | UK USA |
The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | Tobruk |
| 1996 | USA | Mother Night | Keith Gordon | |
| 1996 | UK | Over Here (TV) | Tony Dow | Rivalry between British and American aircrews in England |
| 1996 | Thailand | Sunset at Chaophraya | Euthana Mukdasanit | The Japanese occupation of Thailand; the Free Thai Movement |
| 1997 | France | Lucie Aubrac | Claude Berri | The story of Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, in Occupied France |
| 1997 | UK | The Land Girls | David Leland | Women's Land Army |
| 1997 | Italy | La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) | Roberto Benigni | The Holocaust |
| 1997 | Australia USA |
Paradise Road | Bruce Beresford | Allied women POWs in Sumatra |
| 1998 | Japan | Pride | Shunya Ito | A depiction of Tojo Hideki during the Tokyo Trials |
| 1998 | USA | Miracle at Midnight (TV) | Ken Cameron | Rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust |
| 1998 | USA | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | The landing at Omaha Beach and fighting inland |
| 1998 | USA | The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | The Guadalcanal campaign |
| 1998 | USA | When Trumpets Fade | John Irvin | The Battle of Huertgen Forest |
| 1999 | France USA Hungary |
Jakob the Liar | Peter Kassovitz | A Jewish ghetto |
| 1999 | Russia Germany Japan Italy France |
Moloch | Aleksandr Sokurov | A visit by Adolf Hitler to the Berghof |
| 1999 | Finland Russia |
Ambush | Olli Saarela | The Continuation War |
| 1999 | Croatia | Četverored | Branko Schmidt | The Bleiburg massacre |
| 1999 | Germany | Aimée & Jaguar | Max Färberböck | While the Gestapo purge Berlin of Jews, a love affair blooms between two women, Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust. |
| 1999 | China | Lover's Grief over the Yellow River | Feng Xiaoning | A story of an American pilot about to pay his respects to the communist-led Chinese army who rescued him. |
| Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Canada Germany UK |
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace | Eric Till | German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. |
| 2000 | China | Devils on the Doorstep | Jiang Wen | The Second Sino-Japanese War. |
| 2000 | Italy | Johnny the Partisan | Guido Chiesa | Partisan warfare in Northern Italy. |
| 2000 | Malaysia | Leftenan Adnan | Aziz M. Osman | Story of Adnan Bin Saidi and the Battle of Pasir Panjang. |
| 2000 | Italy | Malèna | Giuseppe Tornatore | Set in Sicily in 1940 just as Italy enters the war. Malèna's husband leaves to serve in the military. |
| 2000 | Philippines | Markova: Comfort Gay | Gil Portes | A story based on the life of Walter Dempster Jr., the last surviving comfort gay from the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
| 2000 | Czech Republic | Musíme si pomáhat (Divided We Fall) | Jan Hrebejk | Czechoslovakia - German occupation, collaboration, resistance |
| 2000 | USA | U-571 | Jonathan Mostow | American submariners disguised as Nazis infiltrate a German U-boat with orders to capture an Enigma machine that could turn the tide of the war. |
| 2000 | Poland | Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa (Judgement on Franciszek Kłos) (TV) | Andrzej Wajda | Poland - German occupation, collaboration |
| 2001 | UK USA |
Band of Brothers (TV) | Steven Spielberg | Easy Company, 506th Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division from D-Day through Holland, Belgium and Germany. |
| 2001 | UK France USA |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | John Madden | The Italian occupation of the Greek islands. |
| 2001 | UK Australia |
Charlotte Gray | Gillian Armstrong | Special Operations Executive. |
| 2001 | UK USA |
Conspiracy (TV) | Frank Pierson | In 1942, 15 German officials attend a conference in Wannsee headed by SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich to discuss the Final Solution to the Jewish question |
| 2001 | Czech Republic UK |
Dark Blue World | Jan Sverák | Czechoslovakian pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain. |
| 2001 | USA Germany UK Ireland |
Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stand-off between Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and a German sniper during the Battle of Stalingrad. |
| 2001 | UK USA Germany Netherlands |
Enigma | Michael Apted | Enigma machine mystery. |
| 2001 | Philippines | Gatas... Sa dibdib ng kaaway | Gil Portes | A Filipina offers to be a wet nurse to a Japanese soldier's new son for the conditional freedom of her husband. |
| 2001 | Japan | Hotaru (Firefly) | Yasuo Furuhata | Based on the true story of a Korean kamikaze pilot. |
| 2001 | USA | Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay | The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid. |
| 2001 | China | Purple Sunset | Feng Xiaoning | The unconditional surrender of Emperor Hirohito. |
| 2001 | Germany Russia |
So weit die Füße tragen (As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me) | Hardy Martins | Adaptation of Clemens Forell's book: a German soldier walks over 11,000 km to escape from the Siberian gulag. |
| 2001 | UK | The Bunker | Rob Green | The Battle of the Siegfried Line. |
| 2001 | USA | The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | The Jewish Sonderkommando XII in the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944. |
| 2001 | USA Burma |
To End All Wars | David L. Cunningham | The Burma Railway. |
| 2001 | USA | Uprising (TV) | Jon Avnet | The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. |
| 2001 | Philippines | Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure | Chito S. Roño | The burying of Yamashita treasure and execution of General Tomoyuki Yamashita in the Philippines. |
| 2002 | France Germany |
Amen. | Costa-Gavras | Alleged collusion between Nazis and the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 2002 | UK | Two Men Went to War | John Henderson | Based on a true story about an amateur commando raid into occupied France. |
| 2002 | USA | Hart's War | Gregory Hoblit | A trial is conducted in a POW camp in Germany |
| 2002 | Russia | Кукушка (Kukushka) The Cuckoo |
Aleksandr Rogozhkin | A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to a Finnish sniper and a captain of the Soviet army at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men. |
| 2002 | France Germany |
Laissez passer (Safe Conduct) | Bertrand Tavernier | France under German occupation |
| 2002 | France | Monsieur Batignole | Gérard Jugnot | A butcher hides and protects a Jewish boy in Occupied France |
| 2002 | France Germany UK Poland |
The Pianist | Roman Polanski | Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman |
| 2002 | USA UK |
The Gathering Storm | Richard Loncraine | Story of Winston Churchill before the war. |
| 2002 | Russia | Zvezda | Nikolai Lebedev | Soviet scouts work behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration |
| 2002 | Italy | El Alamein | Enzo Monteleone | The Second Battle of El Alamein |
| 2002 | USA | Windtalkers | John Woo | Battle of Saipan |
| 2003 | France | Bon Voyage | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France under German occupation |
| 2003 | UK | Entrusted | Giacomo Battiato | An 11-year-old chess prodigy, son of a mother working with the underground resistance, is entrusted with a life-saving secret |
| 2003 | Poland | Pornografia (Pornography) | Jan Jakub Kolski | The German Occupation of Poland |
| 2003 | Germany Netherlands |
Rosenstrasse | Margarethe von Trotta | Jewish husbands of Aryan women detained in Berlin |
| 2003 | Japan | Spy Sorge | Masahiro Shinoda | Biography of a Soviet spy Richard Sorge. |
| 2003 | France | Strange Gardens | Jean Becker | French hostages held captive in a giant pit |
| 2003 | USA | Saints and Soldiers | Ryan Little | A group of Allied soldiers is trapped behind enemy lines with information that could save thousands of American lives |
| 2003 | Germany USA Italy |
The Fallen (Letters From The Dead) | Ari Taub | German, Italian and US combatants on the Italian Front, 1944 |
| 2003 | Czech Republic | Želary | Ondrej Trojan | Two Czechoslovakian resistance fighters are forced into hiding after their group is exposed |
| 2003 | Malaysia | Paloh | Adman Salleh | Japanese occupation of Malaya |
| 2004 | Philippines | Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita | Joel Lamangan | The Battle of Bataan, and Bataan Death March. |
| 2004 | Japan | Chichi to Kuraseba | Kazuo Kuroki | The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima. |
| 2004 | Germany | Der Neunte Tag (The Ninth Day) | Volker Schlöndorff | An SS officer tries to coerce a Catholic priest into writing to the Vatican on behalf of the Church of Luxembourg demanding that the Pope support Hitler |
| 2004 | Germany Italy Austria |
Der Untergang (Downfall) | Oliver Hirschbiegel | The last days of Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker during the Battle of Berlin |
| 2004 | Germany Switzerland Netherlands Luxembourg |
Edelweisspiraten (Edelweiss Pirates) | Niko von Glasow | German resistance group, the Edelweiss Pirates |
| 2004 | USA | Ike: Countdown to D-Day | Robert Harmon | The organization and planning of Operation Overlord at SHAEF |
| 2004 | USA | The Aryan Couple | John Daly | Eastern Europe in 1944 - An undercover Jewish couple's attempt to escape under the name of the Third Reich's "Europa Plan", then being enacted throughout Eastern Europe |
| 2004 | UK | Island at War | Occupation of the Channel Islands | |
| 2004 | Croatia | Long Dark Night | Antun Vrdoljak | Croatia under both Fascism and Communism |
| 2004 | Germany | Napola (Before the Fall) | Dennis Gansel | Two former Hitler Youth bond at a Reich National-Political institution |
| 2004 | Russia | Nesluzhebnoe zadanie (Неслужебное задание) | Vitaly Vorobyev | Cossacks shoot; Fascists die. |
| 2004 | Philippines | Panaghoy sa Suba | Cesar Montano | The Second Battle of Bohol in the Philippines Campaign (1944–45). |
| 2004 | China | Purple Butterfly | Lou Ye | Espionage warfare in occupied Shanghai |
| 2004 | USA | Saints and Soldiers | Ryan Little | Survivors of the Malmedy massacre during the Ardennes Offensive |
| 2004 | Germany | Stauffenberg (TV) | Jo Baier | The July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler |
| 2004 | USA | Straight Into Darkness | Jeff Burr | 2 American deserters and a group of orphans hold back a Nazi assault. |
| 2005 | Lithuania | Forest of the Gods | Algimantas Puipa | An artist and intellectual is imprisoned by both the Nazis and the Soviets |
| 2005 | Finland Sweden |
Framom främsta linjen (Beyond Enemy Lines) | Åke Lindman | The Continuation War between the USSR and Finland from 1941-1944 |
| 2005 | Japan | Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean | Shinji Higuchi Cellin Gluck | A Japanese experimental submarine attempts to prevent the atomic bombing of Tokyo |
| 2005 | India | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero | Shyam Benegal | Subash Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army |
| 2005 | USA | Only the Brave | Lane Nishikawa | The rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team |
| 2005 | China | On the Mountain of Tai Hang | Chen Jian, Shen Dong, Wei Lian | The campaigns of the Eighth Route Army in China |
| 2005 | Germany | Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Marc Rothemund | The final days and trial of Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose resistance |
| 2005 | USA Australia |
The Great Raid | John Dahl | Japanese occupation of the Philippines and the Raid at Cabanatuan |
| 2005 | UK | The Last Drop | David Teague | Operation Market Garden and a secret mission by British forces to steal Nazi gold |
| 2005 | Republic of China | The Strait Story | Yu-shan Huang | |
| 2005 | Russia France Italy Switzerland Japan |
The Sun | Aleksandr Sokurov | Life of Emperor Hirohito |
| 2005 | UK USA China |
The White Countess | James Ivory | |
| 2005 | Russia | Vnimaniye, govorit Moskva | Artyom Nazarov ? | Gorgeous Soviet women snipers [8] |
| 2005 | Japan | Yamato | Junya Sato | The Yamato's crew during the Pacific War. |
| 2006 | China | Tokyo Trial | Gao Qunshu | Chinese Justice Mei Ru-ao at the Tokyo Trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) |
| 2006 | USA | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of American soldiers |
| 2006 | Germany Lithuania |
Ghetto | Audrius Juzėnas | The Holocaust in Lithuania |
| 2006 | France Morocco Algeria Belgium |
Days of Glory | Rachid Bouchareb | Four North Africans enlist in the French Army to liberate France |
| 2006 | Australia | Kokoda | Alister Grierson | Kokoda Track Campaign |
| 2006 | USA | Letters from Iwo Jima | Clint Eastwood | The Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Japanese soldiers |
| 2006 | Russia | Svolochi | Aleksandr Atanesyan | Teenage convicts are sent on a dangerous guerrilla mission |
| 2006 | Netherlands Germany UK Belgium |
Zwartboek (Black Book) | Paul Verhoeven | A Jewish woman joins the Dutch Resistance |
| 2006 | Germany | The Last Train | Dana Vávrová Joseph Vilsmaier | A cattle train with 688 Jews bound for Auschwitz in 1943 |
| 2007 | USA | American Pastime | Desmond Nakano | Love, jazz and baseball at the Topaz, Utah internment camp |
| 2007 | UK | Atonement | Joe Wright | Dunkirk evacuation |
| 2007 | Australia | Curtin (TV) | Jessica Hobbs | The wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin |
| 2007 | Japan | For Those We Love | Taku Shinjō | Stories of kamikaze pilots |
| 2007 | Poland | Jutro idziemy do kina (Tomorrow We're Going to the Movies) | Michał Kwieciński | The Polish Campaign, 1939 |
| 2007 | Poland | Katyń | Andrzej Wajda | The Katyń massacre of Polish POWs and civilians by the Soviets in 1940 |
| 2007 | China USA Republic of China |
Lust, Caution | Ang Lee | An espionage thriller set in occupied Shanghai |
| 2007 | Germany | Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler | Dani Levy | |
| 2007 | Belgium | Surviving with Wolves | Véra Belmont | A young Jewish girl combs Europe for her deported parents |
| 2007 | Finland | Tali Ihantala 1944 | Åke Lindman, Sakari Kirjavainen | Battles of the Continuation War |
| 2007 | Austria | The Counterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Operation Bernhard |
| 2007 | Estonia | Ühe metsa pojad | Ats Surva | Battles in Southern Estonia in August 1944 |
| 2007 | Japan | Yunagi City, Sakura Country | Kiyoshi Sasabe | The aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| 2008 | Germany | Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin | Max Färberböck | Soviet occupation of Berlin |
| 2008 | Australia | Australia | Baz Luhrmann | Romance between an Australian soldier and a British aristocrat during the first attack on Darwin |
| 2008 | USA UK |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Mark Herman | The Holocaust as seen by two 8-year-olds, one the son of a death camp commandant, the other an interned Jew |
| 2008 | Australia China Germany |
The Children of Huang Shi | Roger Spottiswoode | The Nanking Massacre, and Three Alls Policy. |
| 2008 | USA | Defiance | Edward Zwick | Bielski partisans |
| 2008 | Denmark | Flammen og Citronen (Flame & Citron) | Ole Christian Madsen | Two members of the Danish Resistance are sent to assassinate Nazis and collaborators |
| 2008 | France UK |
Les Femmes De L'Ombre (Female Agents) | Jean-Paul Salomé | Five female SOE agents parachute into occupied France to assassinate the German head of counter-intelligence) and rescue a Briton with information on the D-Day invasion |
| 2008 | Norway Germany Denmark |
Max Manus | Joachim Rønning
Espen Sandberg |
Max Manus, a resistance member during the Nazi occupation of Norway |
| 2008 | USA | Miracle at St. Anna | Spike Lee | The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre |
| 2008 | Netherlands | Oorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime) | Martin Koolhoven | A young boy becomes involved in the Dutch Resistance during the last winter of the war |
| 2008 | Israel | Spring 1941 | Uri Barbash | Romance between a Warsaw grocer and a Jew she is hiding |
| 2008 | Czech Republic | Tobruk | Václav Marhoul | Siege of Tobruk |
| 2008 | USA Germany |
The Reader | Stephen Daldry | |
| 2008 | USA | Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | The July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler |
| 2009 | France | The Army of Crime | Robert Guédiguian | The Manouchian resistance group and the Red Poster |
| 2009 | Russia UK |
Attack on Leningrad | Aleksandr Buravsky | The Siege of Leningrad |
| 2009 | China | City of Life and Death | Lu Chuan | The Nanking Massacre |
| 2009 | China | Cow | Guan Hu | |
| 2009 | USA | Everyman's War | Thad Smith | The US 94th Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge |
| 2009 | Japan Russia Canada |
First Squad | Yoshiharu Ashino | Anime film about the Nazi-Soviet War. |
| 2009 | USA | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | Jewish-American soldiers on a mission to kill a group of Nazis |
| 2009 | USA UK |
Into the Storm | Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Biographical film about Winston Churchill and his wartime leadership (sequel to The Gathering Storm) |
| 2009 | Hong Kong | Ip Man | Wilson Yip | Yip Man's life in the city of Foshan during the Sino-Japanese War |
| 2009 | Germany China France |
John Rabe | Florian Gallenberger | The Nanking Massacre |
| 2009 | Japan | Last Operations Under the Orion | Tetsuo Shinohara | A naval battle between Japan and the USA |
| 2009 | Russia | Pop (The Priest) | Vladimir Khotinenko | A priest in occupied Latvia |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Russia | Brest Fortress | Alexander Kott | Defense of Brest Fortress by Soviet troops in June 1941 |
| 2010 | Japan | Caterpillar | Kōji Wakamatsu | Disfigured Japanese veteran returns home |
| 2010 | Poland UK |
Christine: War My Love | Agnieszka Holland | Story of Polish spy Krystyna Skarbek |
| 2010 | People's Republic of China | Death and Glory in Changde City | Dong Shen | The 1943 Battle of Changde in Hunan – a Chinese division of 8,000–9,000 defends the city from 30,000 Japanese |
| 2010 | People's Republic of China | East Wind Rain | Yunlong Liu | |
| 2010 | Czech Republic Germany Austria |
Habermannův mlýn (Habermann's Mill) | Juraj Herz | Life in Nazi Czechoslovakia |
| 2010 | Poland | Joanna | Feliks Falk | Krakow, Poland - German occupation and Holocaust |
| 2010 | UK | The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | King George VI |
| 2010 | France | La Rafle | Roselyne Bosch | The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup |
| 2010 | Hong Kong | Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen | Wai-keung Lau | Shanghai prior to the Japanese invasion |
| 2010 | USA | The Pacific | Carl Franklin, Tim Van Patten, Graham Yost, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To | 1st Division of the US Marine Corps's actions in the Pacific Theater |
| 2010 | France | Sarah's Key | Kristen Scott Thomas | Vel' d'Hiv |
| 2010 | USA | The Way Back | Peter Weir | Prisoners, including POWs, escape from a Soviet Gulag |
| 2010 | Poland | Wenecja | Jan Jakub Kolski | German occupation of Poland, 1939-1945 |
| 2011 | UK | Age of Heroes | Adrian Vitoria | |
| 2011 | USA | Captain America: The First Avenger | Joe Johnston | Captain America battles Red Skull |
| 2011 | India | Gandhi to Hitler | Rakesh Ranjan Kumar | Based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler |
| 2011 | Sweden | Gränsen (The Frontier) | Richard Holm | Two Swedish soldiers travel toward the border of Nazi-occupied Norway |
| 2011 | Denmark | Hvidstens gruppen | Regner Grasten | A resistance group from Jutland |
| 2011 | USA | Little Iron Men | Jesse Kobayashi | Rescue of the Lost Battalion by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team |
| 2011 | UK | The Lost Valentine | Darnell Martin | Quest for a husband declared missing in action |
| 2011 | USA | Sarah's Key | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup |
| 2011 | Japan | Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fox to yobareta otoko (Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox) | Hideyuki Hirayama | Japanese holdout Sakae Ōba after the 1944 Battle of Saipan |
| 2012 | USA | Red Tails | Anthony Hemingway | The Tuskegee Airmen |
| 2012 | USA | Truth & Treason | Matt Whitaker | Helmuth Hübener, youngest anti-Nazi executed by the Volksgerichtshof |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201X | USA | Agent Zigzag | Mike Newell | Nazi spy Eddie Chapman becomes a British double agent |
| 201X | Brazil | A Montanha – O Filme (The Mountain – The Film) | Vicente Ferraz | Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy |
| 201X | UK USA New Zealand |
Dambusters | Christian Rivers | Operation Chastise |
| 201X | USA Germany |
The Forgotten Soldier | Paul Verhoeven | Adaptation of Guy Sajer's autobiography |
| 201X | South Korea | My Way[9] | Kang Je-gyu | |
| 201X | Estonia | Nemad (Them) | Ilmar Raag | Battle of the Tannenberg Line |
| 201X | USA | Panzer 88 | Peter Briggs | King Tiger tank crewmen on the Eastern Front battle an unknown creature |
| Years | Country | Title | Battles, campaigns, events depicted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1958 | UK | O.S.S. | The OSS in occupied France |
| 1962 | 1966 | USA | McHale's Navy | The misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew in the Pacific Campaign |
| 1962 | 1967 | USA | Combat! | A frontline American infantry squad battle their way across France |
| 1964 | 1967 | USA | Twelve O'Clock High | |
| 1965 | 1966 | USA | The Wackiest Ship in the Army | |
| 1965 | 1971 | USA | Hogan's Heroes | Comedy about a POW camp |
| 1966 | 1966 | UK | Court Martial | During the war, the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime |
| 1966 | 1968 | USA | The Rat Patrol | Long Range Desert Patrol |
| 1966 | 1970 | Poland | Czterej pancerni i pies (Four tank men and a dog) | A tank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army on the Eastern Front, 1943–45 |
| 1967 | 1968 | Poland | Stawka większa niż życie (More Than Life at Stake) | Kapitan Hans Kloss - Poland / Germany 1941 - 1945 |
| 1968 | 1977 | UK | Dad's Army | Comedy about the Home Guard |
| 1972 | 1973 | UK | The Pathfinders | RAF pathfinding missions |
| 1972 | 1974 | UK | Colditz | Colditz Castle POW camp |
| 1973 | 1973 | USSR | Seventeen Moments of Spring | A Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany |
| 1975 | 1975 | Poland Hungary |
Trzecia granica (Third Border) | Polish Resistance: Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary |
| 1976 | 1976 | Iran | My Uncle Napoleon | Comedy set in Tehran under Allied occupation |
| 1976 | 1978 | USA | Baa Baa Black Sheep | Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and a Marine air squadron during the war in the Pacific |
| 1977 | 1978 | UK | Backs to the Land | Comedy about the Land Girls |
| 1977 | 1979 | USA | Operation Petticoat | |
| 1977 | 1979 | UK Belgium |
Secret Army | Belgian resistance |
| 1978 | 1981 | Denmark | Matador | The fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947 |
| 1981 | 1981 | UK | Kessler | |
| 1982 | 1992 | UK | 'Allo 'Allo! | Comedy about a café in Occupied France |
| 1985 | 1985 | USA | Jenny's War | A woman launches a rescue of her RAF pilot son, shot down over Germany in 1941 |
| 1988 | 1988 | UK | Piece of Cake | RAF from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain |
| 1992 | 1992 | Denmark | Mørklægning | Thriler about the war-tired and sick amusement Denmark. |
| 1997 | 1997 | Singapore | The Price of Peace | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | Australia | Changi | Changi POW camp |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore | In Pursuit of Peace | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore | A War Diary | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2002 | now | UK | Foyle's War | |
| 2004 | 2005 | Japan | Zipang | An anime TV series about Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer that travels through time to early days of WW2. |
| 2006 | 2007 | China | Dàdāo xiàng guǐzi men de tóu shàng kǎn qù | The last fight during the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 |
| 2007 | 2007 | China | Gongxun | China, the USSR, and Japan launch a win-or-die spy war |
| 2007 | 2007 | China | Sentry Under the Neon Lights (霓虹灯下的哨兵) | The Eighth Route Army on the Nanjing Road of Shanghai |
| 2007 | 2007 | Poland | Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów (Fortress of Codes) | Polish - German espionage thriller, 1945 |
| 2007 | 2007 | Hong Kong | War and Destiny | The Nanjing Massacre |
| 2007 | 2007 | Iran Hungary France Lebanon |
Zero Degree Turn | An Iranian student in occupied Paris loves a Jewish woman |
| 2007 | 2008 | China | Xie Se Xiang Xi | The Battle of West Hunan |
| 2007 | now | China | Soldiers Sortie | |
| 2008 | 2008 | Russia | Apostol | Life and treachery for a Russian teacher trained as a double agent in German intelligence |
| 2008 | 2008 | Estonia | Tuulepealne maa | Two Estonian families from World War I until 1941 |
| 2008 | 2010 | Poland | Czas honoru | Cichociemni (SOE agents) and the Polish Resistance |
| 2008 | 2010 | Japan | Hetalia: Axis Powers | An anime in which characters are national personifications showing interactions of Countries during WWII |
| 2009 | now | UK | Land Girls | Drama about the Land Girls |
| 2009 | now | China | My Chief and My Regiment | |
| 2009 | now | France | Un village français | An Occupied French village, from May, 1940 to... 1 month of war per episode. |
| 2010 | now | Hong Kong | No Regrets | Set in the late 1930s to late 1940s in Canton, China during Japanese occupation. |